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Finding Resilience in the Aftermath of Cyclone Roanu in Bangladesh
›In 1970, Cyclone Bhola slammed into East Pakistan – present day Bangladesh – with sustained winds of 150 miles per hour, killing as many as half a million people. In 2007, Cyclone Sidr killed 3,406 people in Bangladesh. This year, Cyclone Roanu killed just 30. What’s behind this huge decline in mortality? What has Bangladesh done differently?
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Military Leaders Urge South Asian Countries to Put Aside Animosities in Face of Common Climate Threat
›July 6, 2016 // By Sreya PanugantiDespite a long history of confrontation and simmering tensions, three senior retired military leaders from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India urge the nations of South Asia to unite around a common rising threat in a new report.
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Climate Policy vs. Climate Ethics? A Debate on Justice and Our Global Future
›As the international community looks to the Paris climate agreement and beyond, a key question emerges: Will strong ethical arguments or pragmatic national interest lead to a safe and sustainable future? Can these two perspectives coexist? [Video Below]
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Maxine Burkett on Why “Climate Refugees” Is Incorrect – and Why It Matters
›More and more we are hearing stories about “climate refugees.” U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell used the term to describe the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe, a community which this year became the first to receive federal funding to relocate in its entirety from their sinking island home on the Louisiana coast.
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Climate Diplomacy
Chad Briggs on Managing Environmental Risks and Military, Intelligence, and Diplomacy Roles
›June 30, 2016 // By Wilson Center StaffChad Briggs, strategy director of global interconnections and lecturer at the American University in Kosovo, spoke with adelphi about the role of diplomacy as well as that of the intelligence and military communities in reducing disaster risk and vulnerability.
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What Next? Climate Mitigation After Paris
›The Paris Climate Agreement sets forth a bold goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, keep global temperature rise below 2.0 degrees Celsius, and employ best efforts toward no more than 1.5 degrees of warming. It also sets forth a new set of rules to achieve these goals. [Video Below]
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Perception Matters: New Insights Into What Determines Resilience
›Resilience is increasingly recognized as a powerful concept to help practitioners, academics, and policymakers better understand how people respond to shocks and stressors, and how those responses can be linked to longer-term positive or negative development outcomes, such as wellbeing or food (in)security.
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How to Translate Paris Pledges Into Action? Regulatory Frameworks, Says World Bank’s Grzegorz Peszko
›Nearly six months after the Paris climate agreement, the international community’s attention has shifted from celebration to implementation. Governments have begun outlining climate pledges in the form of intended nationally determined contributions, or INDCs – which are fast becoming nationally determined contributions, or NDCs, as they begin influencing policy.
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